Lead Stories How Do Traders Respond to Off-Hour Earnings Announcements? Based on the research of Matthew R. Lyle, Christopher Rigsby, Andrew Stephen and Teri Lombardi Yohn – Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University On Wall Street, “business hours” aren’t quite what they seem. The opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange rings at 9:30 a.m. Eastern, and the closing bell sounds at 4 in the afternoon—yet 95 percent of publicly traded companies announce their quarterly earnings outside of those official hours. jlne.ws/2qrxvSw ****SD: Basically, people are slow to react to earnings announcement the further they are from normal…